An 11-year-old decides his broken family is something he can fix if he's brave enough, and the movie believes him completely. The animation moves like nothing else from 2006, every frame fluid and alive, but what stays with you is how sincerely it treats a kid's desperation to undo what adults broke. By the end you're not watching a fantasy RPG unfold, you're watching someone learn that changing your fate doesn't mean erasing the pain that made you want to change it.

Wataru is a young schoolboy whose world falls apart. His father leaves home, and his mother ends up in hospital. Hoping to change his fate, he steps through a door his friend Mitsuru has shown him and enters another world. On the other side lies a land of magic and monsters called Vision. There he must learn magic and hunt for hidden treasures, joined by new companions, as he seeks the Goddess of Destiny, who is believed to grant wishes and could set his mistaken fate right.